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Michigan Tech receives $2.5M ARPA-E MINER award for carbon storage and extraction of critical minerals from mine tailings

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A Michigan Tech project to help mines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and Minnesota achieve net-zero emissions while extracting critical minerals from mine tailings has received $2.5 Michigan Tech’s project is the only one in the state to receive funding from Mining Innovations for Negative Emissions Resource Recovery (MINER).

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Virginia Tech researchers find estimates of the carbon cycle are incorrect; implications for models

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Virginia Tech researchers, in collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, have discovered that key parts of the global carbon cycle used to track movement of carbon dioxide in the environment are not correct, which could significantly alter conventional carbon cycle models. Dorheim, K.

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Indian-origin researcher discovers new tech that can charge electric car in 10 min – ET Auto

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Download ETAuto App Get Realtime updates Save your favourite articles Scan to download App The post Indian-origin researcher discovers new tech that can charge electric car in 10 min – ET Auto appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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The selected projects, led by universities, national laboratories, and the private sector aim to develop commercially scalable technologies that will enable greater domestic supplies of copper, nickel, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, and other critical elements. Columbia University. Harvard University.

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Four Startups Aim to Change the Climate Tech Game

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That’s what John Hennessy, Stanford professor (and former president) and chairman of Alphabet , told attendees at the Stanford Global Energy Forum , held in-person this month on the Stanford University campus. There are 2.6 million idle wells, Gregory continued, “with an average depth 5000 feet.” Renewell recently received a $2.7

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. But we do actually need that energy to be generated,” says Alper Bozkurt, who with Veena Misra codirects the Center for Advanced Self-Powered Systems of Integrated Sensors and Technologies (ASSIST) at North Carolina State University. Leveraging watch tech for…bisons?

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GM's EVs Will Offer Bi-Directional Charging by 2026

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Beyond functioning as a generator, the function will allow owners to move and store energy as peak pricing surges.& & Other companies, including Hyundai and Kia, have developed similar tech for their EVs. GM will kick off the initiative with the 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV RST, which rides on its Ultium platform.

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